Sri Lanka, Sept. 16 -- Thulci Aluwihare, the Deputy Managing Director, CHEC Port City Colombo, struck a note of optimism for the future to the project to attract new investors from India and the Middle East under the changing dynamics of global economics and policies. Excerpts:

Q What is the current status of Colombo Port City?

Port City is a long-term project. Given the magnitude of the project and the profile of the investors we are trying to attract, country confidence should rank the highest.

Even when you do financial feasibilities in isolation, although numbers will stack up for a particular project, they look at the country situation. Since 2019 until the middle of last year, we had a lot of challenges as a country. We are on a...